3ds Max Tutorials: Stylized Firearm Production(1)

How to create a stylized Cheongsam girl in ZBrush and 3ds Max? In this article, the best render farm and cloud rendering service provider, Fox Renderfarm will share with you the tutorial. For part one:How to Create a Stylized Cheongsam Girl in ZBrush and 3ds Max(1) High polygon model/face/hair/clothing wrinkles When you've carved to a certain extent, you're going to ZBrush to make a high-polygon model. First of all, I add a new hem to the model that needs to be added with subdivision carving. Most of the automatic hem of ZBrush can already meet our manufacturing requirements. If there is some dissatisfaction, it can also be matched with part of the edge ring hem of ZModeler.When carving wrinkles, I usually turn on the Lazy mouse function, which can make the carved lines more smooth, avoid intermittent lines, make the cloth look cleaner and more beautiful, and can also be matched with some Alpha brushes, so that the wrinkles are more detailed and richer.!How to Create a Stylized Cheongsam Girl in ZBrush and 3ds MaxWhen making hair, it is recommended to use simple geometry first, with the SnakeHook brush to quickly make the outline of the hair, for the subsequent hair production to provide a good basis. When using the SnakeHook brush, you can also turn on Sculptris Pro mode in conjunction with it, so that there is no obvious distortion in some places where there is a large change. !How to Create a Stylized Cheongsam Girl in ZBrush and 3ds MaxAfter adjusting the simple outline, you can use the hairbrush to brush the hair out in clusters. Before brushing the hair, make sure that curve mode is turned on, lock the starting point, and then it takes a lot of patience. Of course, the best way is to observe how the real person's hair twists so that the hair will naturally look good. Details need to pay attention to the scalp coverage and to avoid some places "bald" off. In this case, the hair production is not close to the tangent of the scalp, but first grows up, and then falls down. Paying attention to these details, the hair will naturally look good.Finally, we use the "Automatic grouping" in the "Polygon group" to get rich, well-rooted hair, and then use the Move Topological brush to pull out some of the hair and make small broken hair floating outside to make the hairstyle look more vivid and flexible. It should be noted here that the hair pulled out should still float away according to the direction of the overall hairstyle, do not let the separation distance or angle be too large, otherwise, it looks easy to fake or not natural enough.!How to Create a Stylized Cheongsam Girl in ZBrush and 3ds Max RenderingSo far I've only made models, not added materials. In this case, Keyshots are generally used for rendering, because the model without materials rendered by Keyshots will look more delicate and have a good light and shadow effect. Normally, I will first set a warm light main light source from 45° down from the upper left, and then match a cold light auxiliary light source from the back to the front from the right, so that the structure is more vivid.!How to Create a Stylized Cheongsam Girl in ZBrush and 3ds Max

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The production of high poly is an important part of the 3D modeling, especially for the production of hard surface models such as inorganic materials. There are many ways to achieve it. Fox Renderfarm, your TPN-Accredited render farm and cloud rendering service provider share a article about How to Make The Hard Surface of Firearms. In this article, I will explain how to use Zbrush and 3ds Max to create a hard surface model of the high poly M500 revolver.The final effect of M500 revolver:!How to Make The Hard Surface of Firearms 17!How to Make The Hard Surface of Firearms 4!How to Make The Hard Surface of Firearms 11The production process is divided into three parts, including 3ds Max and Zbrush for high poly, Keyshot for rendering, and Photoshop for post-processing. In this passage, the production of the pistol runner model will be introduced in detail. Runner model productionSoftware used: the ZBrush Spotlight!How to Make The Hard Surface of Firearms 181. Find the Spotlight tool in Light: 5 sets of preset Alpha templates, choose an entry tool, and convert the generated model to ploymesh 3D.!How to Make The Hard Surface of Firearms 0Press Z key: select the desired Alpha, add to the model position, then mask. The Spotlight tool can freely control operations such as displacement, scaling and rotation, copying, and Boolean operations.!How to Make The Hard Surface of Firearms 2Generate the model: Operate in Front View to ensure that the Alpha graphics are selected, and the yellow frame is selected.!How to Make The Hard Surface of Firearms 5Click the Z key to exit the mask editing and edit the model. Shift+Z hides the extra tools. After making the first root, then continue to generate other models. The placement can be according to the reference picture.!How to Make The Hard Surface of Firearms 9Use the Array array tool to rotate the copy model. The array can control the number of copies and the distance between them at will.!How to Make The Hard Surface of Firearms 10Alpha menu can add custom Alpha graphics, black and white images made in PSD format, add to Spotlight to generate a custom Alpha-model. we can first create a black and white image in Photoshop and import it into Zbrush for use.!How to Make The Hard Surface of Firearms 7The triangle model used ZBrush's Spotlight to generate the model, imported 3DS max to copy the two rows of models, and then use the bend modifier to rotate and bend to fit outside the circle. This model fits better and is easy to operate.!How to Make The Hard Surface of Firearms 12Make a diamond-shaped convex structure, then present array and bending effect in the max.!How to Make The Hard Surface of Firearms 15!How to Make The Hard Surface of Firearms 3The model before the Boolean operation is ready. 2. Boolean use of ZBrushUse Boolean to create the desired shape on the model of the main body. Here is one thing to note that it is best to put the model in a folder for Boolean.!How to Make The Hard Surface of Firearms 14After Boolean is used, the model will be automatically grouped. The resolution of danymesh is higher as 512-1024.!How to Make The Hard Surface of Firearms 8If you want the edges of the model to be soft, you can blur the Mask on the edges of the model a little bit, and then flip the mask.!How to Make The Hard Surface of Firearms 13The overall adjustment is almost complete, and the model can now be smooth.!How to Make The Hard Surface of Firearms 6Finally, use a smooth brush to adjust the effect.!How to Make The Hard Surface of Firearms 16The details can be modified according to needs. The runner model is almost complete. we can see that the effect of the hard surface is very good now.